Three stabbed during family fight in San Antonio

Updated 10:40 am, Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Walter Skipper, 43, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Walter Skipper, 43, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

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Three stabbed during family fight in San Antonio

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SAN ANTONIO — Three people sustained serious stab wounds during a fight just before 12:30 a.m. Wednesday in a house in the 12000 block of Maverick Bluff Street.

Walter Skipper, 43, lived in the house with his girlfriend, Deann Kennedy, 35, and her daughter Kaytlynn Kennedy, who is 16. During an argument, Skipper's girlfriend put all his things in the garage and threw him out of the house, according to a police report.

Using a garage door opener, Skipper got back into the house, where his girlfriend finally let him sleep on the couch, according to police. She then went to the bedroom and locked the door behind her, according to police.

A short time later, Skipper apparently forced the bedroom door open and attacked his girlfriend with a kitchen knife in his right hand, according to police. She was cut multiple times in the left side of her body and neck, according to police. Her daughter came into the room and hit Skipper multiple times in the head with a glass vase, according to police.

Skipper then turned his attention to the daughter and stabbed her twice in the chest, according to police. The daughter managed to run outside to a neighbor's house and ask for help, according to police.

The daughter then went back into the house, coming back out with her mother and staying in the driveway until police and medical crews arrived.

Police reported they found a knife on the living room floor, bloody and slightly bent. Skipper was sitting naked in a chair in the kitchen and emergency medical technicians were treating him for multiple cuts on both sides of his abdomen, according to police.

Skipper's girlfriend told police she did not know how he was stabbed, and her daughter never mentioned Skipper being stabbed.

Skipper first told police that he had been attacked “for no reason,” but later said it was because he had disciplined the daughter, causing her mother to get angry and attack him with the knife. He was taken to the San Antonio Military Medical Center.

Police charged Skipper with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He was being held Wednesday in the Bexar County Jail on bonds totaling $150,000.